Determining the gender of your cannabis plants is the first step to a successful grow. Female plants are the only ones that produce bud cannabis. While it is fairly easy to spot the gender difference, cannabis does come with a curveball. Plants can also be hermaphrodites. And female plants can switch to this state during growing stress. Cannabis plants are not gender neutral.

Female Marijuana Plant Pictures. Female marijuana plants take a bit longer than males to show their first signs after being changed over to. But I've since learned that pre-flowers can reveal the plant's sex while it's still in the vegetative Cannabis plants grow pre-flowers as. 4 days ago How to Identify Female and Male Marijuana Plants. If you are growing marijuana for medicinal purposes, you need to know how to identify.